Back to basicsRevisiting HRM in uncertain times

Organizing & Scientific Committee
Tiago Rodrigues Gonçalves – ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon
Carla Curado – ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon
Helena Mateus Jerónimo – ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon
Paulo Lopes Henriques – ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon
✎ 00h00, 1 January 2027 to 23h59 31January 2027 – Western EU/ Mainland Portugal/ UK:
- Students – 285 €
- Standard – 385 €
✎ 00h00 1 February 2027 to 23h59 25 February 2027 – Western EU/ Mainland Portugal/ UK:
- Students- 385 €
- Standard – 485 €
Registration and Submissions
To register for the conference or submit a paper, please visit the conference registration website
registration.ichrm.eu
Payment details
Payment must be made by bank transfer or PayPal, as indicated on the registration form. Proof of payment, together with the PDF generated upon registration through the conference registration page, must be sent to geral@advance.iseg.ulisboa.pt.
The 6th International Conference in Human Resource Management – 2027 is honoured to announce that it is offering a Special Issue from a top international journal associated with the Conference.
➤ Collaboration with Journal – publishing opportunity: Details coming soon
A Special Issue on Revisiting theoretical pillars of HRM in the age of uncertainty: Contributions for performance
✦ Call for submissions opens in June 2026
✦ Submission system opens September 1st 2026;
✦ Submissions can be made via the conference registration page: registration.ichrm.eu
✦ Submission deadline for full paper extended – November 30 th 2026
✦ Notification of acceptance of full paper – December 31st 2026;
✦ Early bird registration – Until January 31st 2027;
✦ Late registration – From February 1st to February 25th 2027;
✦ Final program – March 1st 2027;
✦ Conference – March 4th – 5th 2027.
› Conference articles’ format should follow the format outlined below:
› Word/length limits to be considered for the Conference articles should have a maximum of 9000 words.
› All types of articles are welcome to the Conference; however, we would like to highlight several recommended research foci/streams:
– We encourage papers to address or explore performance orientations, including direct performance outcomes or key HRM mechanisms or capabilities that can foster performance.
– All papers should address issues regarded as significant by academics, practitioners and employees, while examining organizational effectiveness and people management processes.
– Papers should contribute to strategy and policy thinking in HRM, considering challenges faced by the discipline and challenges facing the workforce and organizations.
– Papers should included dedicated sections outlining their implications for theory and practice alike.
› Such collaboration presents a wonderful opportunity for senior and junior academics, PhD students, and Master students to publish their research.
› Conference articles must present the abstract in both Portuguese and English.
› Submitting the papers to the Special Issue (coming soon) is a personal decision of the authors.
› Papers submitted to the journal (to be announced) will be checked by the editorial office before being moved forward to further processing and will go under peer review.
6th International Conference in Human Resource Management • 2027
ISEG Research – ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon is pleased to announce a call for submissions to the 6th International Conference in Human Resource Management (4–5 March 2027).
We welcome theoretical and empirical articles in either Portuguese or English.
We invite researchers in the areas of Human Resources Management and related fields, students in master’s and doctoral programs, as well as practitioners interested in these research topics.
Original empirical research articles and literature reviews are welcome.
Research topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- – Reassessing strategic HRM in the new organizational landscapes
- – Talent, careers, and workforce planning under uncertainty
- – (Re)new(ed) challenges of leadership in organizations
- – HRM and organizational learning, agility and adaptability
- – HR Analytics in crisis management and decision-making
- – Challenges to competency, performance and rewards management systems
- – Motivation, engagement, and commitment in changing work contexts
- – HRM, organizational resilience and workforce adaptability
- – Soft and hard HRM in the digital workspace
- – HRM approaches to wellbeing and mental healthcare
- – (Re)visiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity
- – The HRM role in shaping business ethics
- – Future of work and new employment forms
- – Artificial Intelligence and automation in HRM
- – Sustainability and HRM as a strategy
- – Knowledge management and HRM
- – Managing wisdom, spirituality, and religion in the workforce
- – On purpose and meaning: continuous and emerging challenges
- – HRM as a leverage for times of transformation
- – HR paradoxes and tensions in the age of AI
- – (Re)visiting core HR practices and employment relations
The Conference format
The Conference will be held on the 4-5th of March 2027 keeping its last edition hybrid format, which allows the attendants to join us in Lisbon or participate remotely.
The Conference will have two streams: one in Portuguese and another in English.
We are planning to run the conference as a physical event with the option for participants to join virtually.
Nevertheless, by now we invite everyone to attend in person the 6th International Conference in Human Resource Management, 2027 at ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon.
Papers in the Portuguese stream and papers in the English stream will have the OPTION to have online presentation or onsite presentation at the Conference venue: ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management at the University of Lisbon. Presenting authors must choose between an online or onsite presentation when they register.
Virtual attendees will be able to present their papers and will have access to the online sessions. The program will include physical sessions with onsite presentations and virtual (online) sessions for remote participants. Online presentations will take place in dedicated virtual sessions with live Q&A, and onsite sessions will include structured discussion time.
The presentation and discussion of articles will work in parallel sessions, with 20 min allocated for the presentation and discussion of each article. Articles will be accepted based on their merit, and they may be in an intermediate stage of their preparation. The acceptance of the submitted articles will only become definitive when at least one of the authors of the article registers for the Conference and makes the due payment. Each individual is limited to one personal appearance on the programme as a presenting author. A presenter can always be a non-presenting co-author on additional papers.
All abstracts of accepted articles to the conference will be collected in a book of proceedings with ISBN.
We plan to acknowledge outstanding contributions through awards (e.g., Best Paper Award), details to be announced.
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